Quick Facts about MTSU Online
(Updated October 2025)
- 57% of MTSU students took at least one online course in Fall 2025. This was over 12,000 students.
- MTSU has 83 fully online degrees, concentrations, and certificate programs. We had 24 programs in 2019.
- MTSU has over 3000 fully online students in Fall 2025, which is over 14% of the total student headcount.
- 29% of all MTSU student credit hours (SCH) in Fall 2025 are from online courses.
- 28% of all Fall 2025 undergraduate SCH, and 47% of all graduate SCH were from online.
- Online enrollment (student credit hours) is at an all-time high and has increased for several consecutive years.
- MTSU Online supports 28 FTTs (full-time temporary faculty) in 18 academic departments who focus on high-quality online teaching.
- MTSU employs four full-time instructional designers who train and coach our faculty on effective teaching and technology use to make sure our students are receiving high-quality online instruction.
- MTSU Online supports many faculty services, including faculty development and training workshops, and peer mentoring, to make our online courses highly effective.
- MTSU Online courses feature engaging interaction with our faculty, which is known to increase student retention and degree completion.
- MTSU Online supports key student services for online students, such as counseling services, 24/7 live subject tutoring, library services, and writing center tutors, all of which are significant contributors to student retention and degree completion.
